How to Add Emoji Keyboard to iPhone (to iMessages, WhatsApp, Notes and More)

I guess most of you would have figured it out by now but for those who don’t know, here’s a way to spice up your iMessages or even add some funny emojis to your notes and reminders and emails.

The iPhone comes with a set of emoji icons that you can access right from your keyboard. And that means you can send those funny, interesting and beautifully-crafted Emoji icons to your friends via iMessage or email or Whatsapp or whatever service you use.

In Android, Whatsapp made use of these new emojis and made them quite popular (well, if these were popular even before that, I am to be forgiven for the lapse).

So, if your friend is bugging you on Whatsapp with these emojis and you’re still trying to figure out how to get them on your keypad.

How to Add Emoji Keyboard to iPhone and iPad Running iOS 7.x:

Go to Settings

Tap on General

Scroll down and tap on Keyboard

Now tap on Keyboards

Tap on Add New Keyboard

Scroll down and choose Emoji

Done!

Now, in order to use the Emoji, you have to do this:

Tap the globe icon when you see the keypad

If you’ve got multiple keypads enabled (for instance, three or four), you have to tap it as many number of times as it would take to get to Emoji keypad

Once done with Emoji, just tap on the globe icon again to return to the normal keypad

While the whole thing works just like that, you can’t tweak stuff here to add more emoticons to the emoji keyboard. Make sure you check the whole thing: you can swipe to scroll through a list of emojis and you can tap on the tabs for different collections of emojis.

You can use the emojis almost everywhere. I mean, wherever there’s going to be the keypad and typing, you can switch to the emoji keypad.